The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-30
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters or Money and Management
About Various Lines.

Matters or Money and Management
About Various Lines.
There is great activity in railroad circles
throughout East Tennessee.
The Atchison people deny that they are
ready as yet to 60 into San Francisco.
The capital stock of one of the Chicago
street railways is valued at 800 for each
800 share,
London seems now to be taking hand in
the disposition of the Bait more and Ohio
railroad. Next!
The Pennsylvania railroad people have
for the present abandoned further action in
the matter OF elevating their tracks in Jer
sey City.
The Canadian Pacific railway is making
bold push for business. 1t is said that the
company proposes soon to put on new and
powerful steamer between Portland and
Vancouver, which means new route be-
tween the Columbia river and the East,
especially New York, Boston and Chicago
The Denver and Rio Grande road has
commenced the sale of thousand-mile tick
cts over it's system at S35 each, or SIC. q
mile and it is stated that the Union Pacific
and Burlington will soon take similar action
This will be considerable decrease over
the average passenger rates in that State,
and will tend materially to increase travel.
Judge Peoples. agent for the Georgia
Southern and Florida railroad, now in
course of construction between Macon and
Valdosta, Ga, and projected thence via
Lake City to Gainesville and Palatka, was
in Lake City on Monday and gave encour-
aging accounts of the enterprise. The road
will be completed to Valdosta, he said by
Feb l next, large forces of hands now being
engaged in the work upon it. Work upon
the Florida division will then begin and
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is now taking subscription and securing
right of way, and said the engineer viii
shortly follow for the purpose of inspecting
the route and making permanent location.
Capt. John C. Printup, President of the
Rome and Decatur railroad, was asked Sat
urday if the failure of Grovesteen & Pell
would have any effect on his road In an
swer to the question he stated that this firm
were the contractors of the road, and further
than little delay caused by the straighten-
ing of accounts between their assignee and
the road, the Rome and Decatur will not be
Inconvenience in its building. He said the
company did not owe $500, and that the
road will certainly be built and put in first
class running order. Thirty-one miles of
this road is finished, and there is not but
three miles OF grading to be done. The
cross ties have been bought and are on the
ground, as are also ten miles Of rails.
The railways in Texas have to foot enor-
nous bills for live stock killed by their
trains on the unfenced plains of that great
country. The Dallas Ne,OS reports the
stock train agent of the Texas Pacific as
saying that during the last year 3,075 head
of animals were run over and killed on that
road, and that the company paid for dead
stock in that year about $4,000. cat this
rate" remarks the Rdii'Udg Age, sit would
evidently be much cheaper for the railway
to fence its hundreds of miles of line in
that State than to pay for killing cattle, es
pecially in view of the well-known fact in
natural history that the breed, beauty and
value generally of an animal improve
enormously after it is slain by the locomo-
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